wondering wombat

wishfully wondering, wistfully wandering writing wombat.

[beyonce-knowles]

“My greatest memory was taking Harrison Ford to a Nigerian restaurant in South East London. And this guy comes up to him and says ‘Are you Harrison Ford?’ and Harrison Ford goes ‘I used to be.’”

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I’m so obsessed with this.

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Absolutely fantastic

[raicheando]

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SO SQUISH missrains

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You Can't Tell Me Galad's First Scene in Knife of Dreams isn't Essentially this:

Galad: My name is Galad Damondred

Galad: You killed my mother

Galad: Prepare to die

A joining of my favorite books and favorite movie.

[thatsgrace]

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I think this is what missrains has to deal with every day.

[wonderingwombat]

Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.

Steve Jobs

[buzzfeed]

These Doctor Who-themed engagement photos are too cute for words.

[doctorwho]

TJ Mundell and Timmy Patterson of Dallas constructed a custom TARDIS and hired photographers Shaun and Shannon Menary to shoot in an appropriately gloomy warehouse in Deep Ellum. To complete the scene, Patterson dolled up as the Ninth Doctor (played by Christopher Eccleston) and Mundell went as the Tenth Doctor (David Tennant).

Fittingly, Patterson’s proposal was something right out of a Doctor Who episode: “He proposed while we were hiking on a mountain in Japan last November,” recalled Mundell. “We were surrounded by monkeys and were almost killed by a giant Japanese wasp.”

Patterson and Mundell will tie the knot on November 8 in Saratoga, California. [x]

[wonderingwombat]

d'aaww missrains you'll find this cute.

[missrains]

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Duh.

[writingquotes-deactivated201509]

I hate commas in the wrong places.

Walt Whitman (via writingquotes)

It's small, but oh so very true.

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George RR Martin is not your bitch. This is a useful thing to know, perhaps a useful thing to point out when you find yourself thinking that possibly George is, indeed, your bitch, and should be out there typing what you want to read right now. People are not machines. Writers and artists aren't machines.

Neil Gaiman

[deskynowsky-blog]

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deskynowsky:

Good Morning 

I want this cover like nothing else.

[observando]

Writers are really people who write books not because they are poor, but because they are dissatisfied with the books which they could buy but do not like.

Walter Benjamin, Illuminations: Essays and Reflections (via observando)

[wonderingwombat]

“Frankly put. I am a FAKE GEEK GUY. I admit it. I like geek stuff, but I don’t love geek stuff. Not the way most geeks do. I’m an interloper on the geek scene. I’ve seen the movies, but I don’t know the canon. I am not a true fan. All those things about not really loving the source material and “just watching the movies” or only reading the one book that everyone has read. That—all of that—applies to me. But here are some things that have never happened to me. I have never been quizzed about who Data’s evil brother is to prove I like Star Trek. I have never had to justify my place in a midnight line to see Spider-man II by knowing who took up the mantle of Spider-man after Peter Parker’s death. (Peter Parker dies? Really? That’s so sad!) I have never had to explain who Nightwing is in order to participate in a conversation about Batman. (Nightwing is like….Robin on steroids, right?) I have never been asked how battle meditation works in order to voice my opinion that Enterprise shields would probably make a fight with Star Wars technology one sided. (Battle meditation is something that was in that Jedi role playing game, wasn’t it?) I have never had to beat everybody in the room (twice) at Mario Kart to prove I liked video games. I have never had my gender “honorarily” changed by having enough geek interests to be accepted (“you’re one of the guys now”). No one has ever insisted I tell them the difference between a tank and DPS in an MMORPG before allowing me to discuss raiding Molten Core. I have never been dismissed as a faker at a prequel screening because I didn’t know which admiral came out of light speed too close to the planet’s surface in The Empire Strikes Back. I have never been quizzed about Armor Class in order to get past someone who was blocking my path to the back of a game store where my friends were waiting at the tables. I have never been told I’m not a real fan. I have never been shamed for coming to a convention despite my lack of esoteric knowledge. And I have never, ever, EVER been invited to leave a fandom because I didn’t like [whatever it was] enough. Every one of the things I have listed, I have personally witnessed happen. To women. That’s not elitism. That’s sexism.”

Unknown.

[sk-letonclique-blog]

[wonderingwombat]

❝don't blink. don't even blink. blink and you're dead. don't turn your back, don't look away and don't blink. good luck.

Terrifying.

[cilly-murphy]

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Love Donna.